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Someone once told me if u bait a turkey with grain the turkey will come check that spot everyday. Any one know if that's true

Ask anyone in West Va.!!!! Bait is deadly.. One of the old timers there used to tell me the best turkey call in the world is yellow corn!!! It is probably illegal now. Not that is would worry most of the guys I knew..

In our state many "grain piles" are out to make it easier for a person to harvest a wild turkey. I can't call it hunting anymore than the use of feeders for deer can be called hunting. I have come across more grain piles than I care to and feel strongly that they aren't used during the season. Some of the "outfitters" use the old "well, we just use them to keep some turkeys around". Right, then their clients blast them when the flock moves in to feed after the conditioning period is well underway. You can keep them around by having good natural habitat. You don't need to cheat.-Mike

Kentucky cracked down big time on turkey baiting about a decade ago. It was getting so the then-current laws were becoming impossible to enforce. Now? They are damn hard to observe.

For instance, nowadays if a field of corn is harvested and some corn falls on the ground, a fellow hunting on the next property over can be nailed for hunting over bait. He doesn't even have to know the corn is there.

It's excellent bait, but so is a guy with a good call. No sport killing a bird over bait and yes it is illegal for deer and turkey.

StudDuck has it right. For what a baited "hunt" costs. You can take the money, buy a good, well cleaned domestic bird and have a naked chick fix it for you with all the trimmings and still have enough left over for "desert".-Mike

Wasn't asking for opinions just wanted to know if it works

Go play your Banjo, Sport.-Mike

Legal where I hunt, and yes it works like a charm. Early season, just calling is still way more fun.

Changed it to what I heard. And no, I don't turkey hunt. miles

The most turkey I ever seen in one place was after we mowed down a played out field of half runners .The ground was speckled with white from beans that busted out of their pods when the blades hit them ,and the next day the field was an all you can eat buffet for the turkeys

When I was stationed at Ft Riley KS, right around the time the fall turkey season opened, early Oct, we would have a grasshopper explosion. All you had to do was glass any field with any kind of grass, the turkeys were out in all of the fields gorging on hoppers. The warmer the afternoon, the better as it got the grasshoppers moving. I forget how many turkeys I killed there, but they all had their craws full of grasshoppers. It was fun to stalk them that way.

yellow yelper helper legal in iowa?????

Anyone who hasn't read Robert Ruark's The Old Man and the Boy needs to read the whole book, but Chapter 7, "Somebody Else's Turkey Always Tastes Better", would be especially interesting to those participating in this thread.

Calling a Tom Turkey in is the real fun in Turkey hunting , anyone can just shoot one over bait. The best bait i have ever seen in the Turkey country is a mowed field full of Grass Hoppers and it is hilarious watching the Turkeys running in circles trying to catch them .

I would say "yes"....



Savage99F358

Nothing like turkey with grasshopper stuffing!

I don't shoot Turkeys here at the Ranch in N. TX. Mainly because I don't like to eat them. Most of the wild turkeys here in TX eat way too many grasshoppers to taste worth a damn.

I do keep a feeder running for them, year round, though, as I like to photograph and watch them.

Check your game laws.

http://www.iowadnr.gov/Portals/idnr/uploads/Hunting/huntingregs.pdf

Page 33:

"PROHIBITED DEVICES & ACTIVITIES
You may not use live decoys, dogs (except
in the fall), horses, phones, radios, motorized
vehicles, aircraft, bait, recorded or electronically
amplified turkey calls or electronically amplified
imitations of turkey calls or sounds when
hunting turkeys. Paraplegics and single- or
double-leg amputees may hunt from any stationary
motor-driven conveyance. “Paraplegic”
means an individual afflicted with paralysis of
the lower half of the body with the involvement
of both legs, usually due to disease or injury to
the spinal cord.

“Bait” means grain, fruit, vegetables, nuts,
hay, salt, mineral blocks, or any other natural
food materials, commercial products containing
natural food materials, or by-products of such
materials transported to or placed in an area
for the purpose of attracting wildlife. Bait does
not include food placed during normal agricultural
activities."

Let me tell you up front that I love to call turkey, and I rarely screw up a successful turkey hunt by killing one brought to the call.

On the other hand when I want one for the table, if you consider a harvested peanut field or a grain field bating them, I'm guilty. Our law allows such. Besides that, that is where the plump good eating ones are to be found. Turkey existing on juniper berries are not fit for the table, IMHO.

JACK